Kyle, What is the value of _buffer_busy_wait_timeout in your database? -Gopal On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 8:48 AM, kyle Hailey <kylelf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I was wondering about the 1sec timout on buffer busy waits. Scanning > v$active_session_history it doesn't look like the timeouts are 1 sec. > They seem fairly evenly distributed between 0 - 1 sec: > > COUNT(*) TIME_WAITED_SECS > ---------- ---------------- > 30 0 > 24 .1 > 30 .2 > 35 .3 > 35 .4 > 17 .6 > 15 .7 > 13 .8 > 64 .9 > 28 1 > > select > count(*), > trunc(time_waited/100000)*.1 time_waited_secs > from v$active_session_history ash > where > event='buffer busy waits' > and ash.session_state='WAITING' > group by > trunc(time_waited/100000)*.1 > order by > trunc(time_waited/100000)*.1 > / > -- Best Regards, K Gopalakrishnan Co-Author: Oracle Wait Interface, Oracle Press 2004 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/007222729X/ Author: Oracle Database 10g RAC Handbook, Oracle Press 2006 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/007146509X/ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l